e1m2_029 by Ken

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Map:		e1m2 - Castle of the Damned
Skill:		0 (Easy)
Type:		Run
Time:		0:29.99
Kills:		??/16
Secrets:	0?/04
Date:		21.12.2005
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Comments:

	One second faster than Markus Taipale's legendary demo.

	"Why legendary?", some may ask, "if there's no hard tricks
	in that one"... Well, my friend, when an ID record stands
	from 29.09.99 until 21.12.05 (don't do the math, lets just
	keep it at "over 6 years old), it has to be legendary. This
	is the third oldest ID demo as of today.

	2 months ago, I was talking to Timo Nieminen, who sent me
	a 30.9 he had made. He said he thought :30 was optimun, and
	he had never even heard of a 30.8, so it was just not beatable.
	Soon after, Midas showed me a 30.7. The gain? The start. Yes,
	instead of Markus' 3 jumps, he did one jump, the way I did
	in this demo.

	2 months ago I had NEVER made a 0:30 in e1m2. Funny, huh?
	I started trying about a week ago, with Midas' start, and
	got a 30.7, then 30.6... kept playing the next day, not too
	seriously or anything, just wanting to know what I'd get..
	and woot! A 30.48 came up. Demo looked flawless, but finally
	it was closer to :29 than to :31. I asked fellow Quakers
	and power-bunniers M/M/M (No, Morfy, you're not one of them :P
	It's Midas, Mandel and Manslay) for advice, and they all came
	up with advice and even sent me demos of possible changes to
	the current way of doing it. Well, first of all, they all said
	the spikes area was slow from Markus' demo, and that one could
	bunny all the way around it.. I tried that, I did and I succeded
	many times, with very fast-looking and smooth demos, yet I measured
	the time it took me to press the bridge-button, and it was slower.
	YES, bunnying through that area was slower, and I tried it all..
	I tried with wide bunnies, and I tried with close bunnies, close
	to that spike corner, so the ceiling hits my head and I land on
	floor faster (whoever has tried must know what I mean). I tried it
	all.. at the stairs, doing one continued bunny sequence from stairs
	at start, all the way to grunt before bridge-button... also slower,
	at least for me.

	Something I must point out: I did "slow" bunnies from Silver Key to
	Silver Door, but that was un purpose. If one does fast bunnies, you
	end up hitting your head with the ceiling one bunny before silver key
	door. Secondly, my bunny to silver key door to the button was horrible,
	but luckily a grunt shot me in the back and I didn't lose time. That
	grunt NEVER shot me in the back before, believe it or not. The lord
	works in misterious ways, huh? ;)

	Thanks a lot to those guys who encouraged me to do it, I know you're
	mentioned above, but you guys are worth mentioning again: Midas,
	Manslay and Mandel. You've proven Timo soooo wrong :P (*joke*)

	This was _very_ hard to get. Tonight I played for about 70 minutes to
	get it. As ALWAYS, I made several demos that looked WAY smoother. :/

	Oh, and Morfy... no, this is not easily beatable. Ok? But it's not
	optimized, and that's not being humble, that's a fact. :-)

	- Arturo Garca Lasca ( garcialasca@verizon.net.do )